By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

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This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the oftenneglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen asexpressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, butlacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-dateintroduction to the subject, as well as a range of research articlesaddressing questions including the syntactic link between parenthetical andframe utterance, the relation between syntactic and prosodic form, theusage and interpretation of parentheticals, and many more. It embracesresearch findings from different European languages (English, German,Dutch, Romance) and covers an array of forms of syntactic interpolations(from one-word parentheticals to clausal) and a range of methodologies,including empirical research, corpus research, and theoretical analyses.The collection underlines the importance of an interdisciplinary approachto a multi-faceted phenomenon such as parentheticals.